PIP-29: Base Deployment and DAO Grants + Treasury & Emergency Committee

Context

Some items from earlier drafts have been postponed to a future PIP (PIP-30) as they depend on new smart contract deployments. This proposal includes only actionable items at this stage and introduces new priorities for the community vote.

Proposal Overview

This proposal covers the following:

• Acceptance of the zPoken grant request for Panther Protocol deployment on Base. (found here)

• Authorisation for the DAO Council to negotiate and receive operational grants from the Panther Protocol Foundation, per the Foundation’s Grant Policy (read policy).

• Designation of the DAO treasury multisig wallet for managing withdrawal fee collections.

• Confirmation of Anish Mohammed’s appointment to the Emergency Stop Committee.

Base Deployment

Panther Protocol will be deployed to Base according to the zPoken Grant proposal. All mainnet rules and configurations apply, except the token whitelist, which will feature network-appropriate modifications.

The token whitelist for Base will be modified to reflect the network’s available and actively traded assets. Selected tokens are essential to Base’s ecosystem:

• ZKP

• cbBTC

• ETH

• USDC

• AERO

• ZORA

• VIRTUAL

• MORPHO

• AAVE

Base deployment was requested by the community and will allow for Base users to engage with Privacy + Defi in a compliant manner. This is the first step in multichain deployment agenda and we will continue to see more chain deployments as requested by the community. Previously drafted items that are being pushed to PIP - 30 will also outline the rewards pool amount for Base deployment as well as Polygon.

Grant Relationship

The DAO Council is authorised to negotiate and receive operational grants from the Panther Protocol Foundation on a renewable quarterly basis, in accordance with Foundation policy.

Council grant expenses eligible for reimbursement include (but are not limited to):

• Council remuneration,

• Community infrastructure (e.g., on-chain governance),

• Ecosystem awareness and educational outreach,

• General ecosystem support.

Specific budgets, frequency, and expenditures will be set in grant agreements reached each quarter between the Council and Foundation. Quarterly expenditure summaries will be posted for transparency.

After PIP approval, the DAO Council will complete KYC with a third-party provider as required by the Foundation.

Treasury Wallet

The Panther Protocol DAO Zone requires a designated treasury wallet for withdrawal fees and related protocol income.

Multisig address: 0xE454ba38c6d358c8018dFA2cBA9a6096B2420ECD

Outgoing transactions require approval from at least two of the three Council members.

Emergency Stop Committee

Anish Mohammed will be formally added to the Emergency Stop Committee as mandated by PIP-25. ETH: 0x1F8988053F13c92d248F6eCba59A1C85dcFE4ceF

Voting Eligibility

Voting is governed under PIP-7, which defines eligibility criteria for Panther DAO governance and now also included $ZKP tokens on base